Greco-Persian Wars

499 BCE, who rebelled against the Persian Empire?

• Ionians in Asia Minor

• Athenians on Mainland Greece

• Spartans on Peloponnesus

• Minoans on Crete

Who sent a navy and military to Asia Minor to help the Ionians?

• Sparta

• Athens

• Macedonia

• Corinth

Who won the Ionian Revolt?

• Ionians

• Persians

To reestablish stability in the western territory of his empire, what did King Darius do?

• Sent ambassadors to Greek city-states

• Exiled the Ionians

• Enslaved the Ionians

• Gave freedom to the Ionians

What did the ambassadors ask for from the Greek city-states?

• Food

• Military weapons

• Earth and Water

• Money

What did the Athenians and Spartans do to the ambassadors?

• Threw them in pits and wells

• Sent them back to the Persians

• Captured them as prisoners

• Enslaved them

Where did the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE take place?

• On the plains outside of the city-state of Athens

• In a narrow mountain pass

• On the Aegean Sea

• On a plateau outside of Sparta

How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians in the first phase of the Battle of Marathon?

• The Athenians successfully utilized their navy

• They had more soldiers than the Persians

• The Athenians out flanked or surrounded the Persians on three sides

• The Persians retreated due to bad weather

Prior to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE, who took leadership of the Persian Empire?

• Cyrus the Great

• Xerxes

• Alexander the Great

• Darius II

How did the Persian army invade Greece for the Battle of Thermopylae?

• Sailed over in a great naval fleet

• Crossed a make-shift bridge at the Hellespont Channel

• A secret underground tunnel beneath the Aegean Sea

• Marched around the Black Sea and invaded from the North